Jay Adelson, the CEO of Digg until April 2010, just landed in a new position. He’s taking over as CEO of location services startup SimpleGeo, and will join the company’s board of directors. Founding CEO Matt Galligan will become the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.
SimpleGeo, which has raised nearly $10 million in venture capital, allows companies to add location features to applications. Earlier this year we made light fun of the company for failing to clearly explain exactly what developers get out of their product.
Hopefully Adelson understands the company. And he certainly seems to. In a phone call this morning he said he’s excited to be working with former Digg employees Joe Stump and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, and said he’s looking forward working at a startup that is at the absolute center of things right now.
The company should make an announcement shortly, and we’ll update with anything they publish.
Currently, Jay serves on some boards as well as advises a number of companies. In May, 2012, Jay sold Revision3 Corporation to Discovery Communications. Most recently, Jay Adelson served as CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc. As Chief Executive, Jay was responsible for developing a business strategy and executing on the promise of location awareness services. The founders and board asked Jay to join to lead the company towards that end and if necessary, drive toward an acceptable exit. Jay sold the company...
Matt Galligan is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco and is the CEO and Co-founder of Circa. He co-founded the company alongside Ben Huh and Arsenio Santos in 2011. Circa is developing a new kind of news experience designed for mobile devices. The company is launching October 2012. Prior to founding Circa, Matt founded two other companies. In 2007, he co-founded and was the CEO of Socialthing, a service that made it easy to keep up...
SimpleGeo provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure that makes it easy to ad location-aware features to applications. The company was founded in 2009 by Matt Galligan and Joe Stump and was acquired by Urban Airship in October 2011.
Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page for other visitors to see. Kevin Rose came up with the idea for Digg in the fall of 2004. He found programmer Owen Byrne through eLance and paid him $10/hour to develop the idea. In addition, Rose paid $99...
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